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DOUBLE BILL: When a Plague Struck World of Warcraft/Blood on the Tracks

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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The First World War - A Train Ride

A year into the First World War, British soldiers are being sent to fight in Gallipoli. 500 men from the first battalion of the seventh Royal Scots have boarded a train in Edinburgh,. It's taken them south to Liverpool where a ship is waiting to carry them to the front. They haven't been told where they're going, but it's not hard to guess. Many won't even get to England.

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